Monday, 29 March 2010

Alive And Kicking

You might have seen the Open letter to the jBPM community explaining that me and Joram step down from the jBPM project. We just want to let you know that we're alive and kicking. We're building a new BPM platform that's architected for new IT requirements. It will be Apache licensed and it will run BPMN 2.0 natively. Exciting times ahead!

That's all we can share at this point. Keep posted for more information.

24 comments:

I don't know the details of this parting, but I do know that I'm going to support this new initiative. The guys who developed such a great product, have all credentials to develop an even better one. Started following your blog and looking forward for further news. ;)

From my current experience JBPM 3 is already a success story and version 3.2.6. sp very stable to support large operations - like the one I am currently involved.

I was very excited with the JBPM 4 initiative - since it would mark the move to pure BPMN 2 processes. So anyway we are safe I guess.JBPM 4 was still not fully deployed or used as much as JBPM 3.

I strongly believe in your technology 'child' which will be JBPM (the name will not matter) and your team - so I am very optimistic about this new start - and that the original vision of JBPM 4 will continue even better to this new start!

We will be waiting!!

The JBPM community will always be a JBPM community....drools or something else is not JBPM ...

Tom, good luck with your venture. As you know, Red Hat/JBoss will continue to invest in and support jBPM and I'm sure the success stories we have with it will continue to roll in. We hope to announce a roadmap for the future in the next few weeks.

I will certainly be following the news on this topic, and respect that you can't give much more information right now. I also agree with Hildeberto.

Having said that, the current situation is rather difficult to deal with. If an organization wants to start using Open Source BPM, what should they do? Use the stable jBPM 3.2, start using jBPM 4.x even though you have left and its future is uncertain, or wait for the-new-Tom-Baeyens-thing?

In the Netherlands, this issue is especially relevant for governmental bodies as there is a policy that they should prefer open source.

Interesting with your new project. I have used jBPM for 3 years now as part of an enterprise architecture with great success, still using version 3.x. We met in Dublin/Guiness brewery for the jBPM meetup a couple of years back, it was great fun.

when do you expect to have something runnuable as far as the new apache project is concerned - please give at least a rough approximation as I'm currently looking into jbpm4 for a new project but would certainly would like this new project a try ;-)

About Me

I'm founder and CEO of Effektif and on a quest to simplify process management and collaboration on the cloud. Before Effektif, I founded the open source BPM engines jBPM and Activiti. In this blog I share my thoughts on processes, collaboration and how those match on the cloud.